asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food if his attention has been drawn to the suggestion from the ICMSA, that the present system of milk quota allocation be replaced by a system involving a temporary quota exchange to be implemented at the beginning of each milk year; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

I am aware of suggestions that have been made along these lines. However, no detailed views have as yet been furnished to me. If detailed proposals are submitted, I will ask the Milk Quota Review Group, which I set up some time ago, to examine them and let me have their views.